Swiftkey is pushing a version 6.0 of its popular keyboard this morning to its public beta channel. The keyboard maker is calling it the “biggest launch of new features” since they made Swiftkey free to all last year.

In the update, Swiftkey is introducing Double-Word prediction, which is exactly as it sounds. Instead of only offering up single word predictions, Swiftkey is now attempting to “predict the next two words you’re likely to type.” If you take a look at the image at the top of this post, you can see the idea in action, where Swiftkey has typed out “Swiftkey 6 beta is…” and the keyboard is predicting “out now” as the next two words.

Along with the new Double-Word prediction, 6.0 gets a more accessible emoji panel that loads quicker and makes it easier to find the “fire” symbol, since that’s the only one anyone needs to use. The settings menu has also been completely overhauled, plus Swiftkey is tossing in a new theme called Carbon Light.

The beta should be live now on Google Play, so grab it at the link below.

yes because of not only emojis but all the other crap like installing to browsers on a device from the factory and five different photo gallery like choice is good but it gets to a point of stupidity quite fast. Just think of how much time went into changing 400+ little emojis…… Now lets put that same amount of time into the actual software and maybe we can get some useful features.

toolazytoregister

i’ve been on the Neural. can’t tell much of a difference between it and the standard SK, but seems to be good enough… has anyone using Neural been paying more attention?

Benyx98

I’ve been using neural too and its almost the same as the original. I do prefer the purple carbon theme on neural as of the other themes on the original.

Andy Blystone

I’ve been using Neural since it came out and can’t help but feel it is worse than og SK. I’ll go back to beta and check back on Neural in an update or 2.

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seldomused

Same, I like it a little more than regular SK but it’s a negligible difference.

abqnm

It’s been performing faster than regular SK. I guess I now need to try the beta.

The most noticeable change I’ve experienced with Neural is its uncanny ability to understand whether or not I am intending to use “its,” the possessive pronoun, or “it’s,” the contraction. Since it’s actually looking at more than just the previous word it’s actually able to understand whether or not it’s “its” or “it’s” I should be using, based on context.

It was something I got used to long ago, having to change “its” to “it’s” and vice versa on a regular basis with SwiftKey. With Neural it knows, so this mistake doesn’t happen anymore and it’s not making me look like I lack the fundamental basics of grammar that using the wrong “its” would indicate.

I’m sure there are other grammar keys that it’s picking up on that I haven’t really noticed yet but it’s definitely very good.

Boomdizzle

I’ve noticed that also but God is it still awful at adding an ‘s to anything. Like if I’m typing ‘Tom’s’ it still either eliminates the S so it is just ‘Tom’ or it auto correct to some different word altogether. Literally drives me crazy

abqnm

I’ve got so many strange names and tech terms that I use regularly I find myself just long pressing the v naturally in proper nouns and words not in common usage. So I guess I haven’t really noticed this.

All I know is that in normal language I can type about 20% faster on Neural than SK alone. Not having my personalized dictionary imported makes a lot of the tech terms more difficult as I have to teach them once or it will correct them to something else, so that’s a little bit slower. If I could import my custom dictionary from SK cloud, I’d be faster all around. And I don’t even really need to look at the keyboard. I can just touch type really quickly and SwiftKey just knows what I’m saying. And Neural is doing a better job as it learns more and more of my language patterns. I’m impressed overall.

Boomdizzle

Yeah I agree it’s learning rather quickly (even got the correct it’s there) and I literally don’t look at the keyboard either. I tried to use the stock keyboard and gave up bc I had to pretty much hit every key where on SK I can just jab my thumbs away and it knows what I’m trying to type 95% of the time.

Droid Ronin

I try out SwiftKey for a while after a major update but always tend to go back to Google Keyboard; it’s just more fluid and faster.

Michael Graef

Been using Swiftkey since the OG Droid. Best productivity app for Android, bar none. This app alone kept me from ever seriously considering iOS. Well, that and the fact that I despise iTunes. (And yes, I know it’s available on iOS now.)

Tyler Durden

Barely touch iTunes when I use iOS.

Albert Kilger

I don’t get it. You can get Swiftkey on iOS since iOS 8. And GPM is available as well (hell it even looks and works better than on the android version). Those are no longer even valid reasons.

I really wish Android emoji’s were up to par with iOS. Not only do theirs look a LOT better, but they also get updates with new emoji’s based on the unicode standard, while we haven’t seen new ones in years.

REM4606

in my opinion the Android blob emojis are far better than the standard versions. and why constantly pump out new emojis? so that one day we’ll have thousands to choose from, or so no one actually has to use words to text anymore?

Tyler Durden

Android emojis look very basic.

morgan boyle

i like the idea of emoji’s but the vastness will be the downfall. they should not replace a vocabulary. and accessing them is slow and annoying.

With the way Swiftkey suggests emojis based on the words you’re typing, having thousands wouldn’t be so bad. Aside from thumbs up/down, poop and the smirky one, I really don’t manually go select emojis. I just tap them in Swiftkey when their usage adds to the message I’m trying to convey.

I also like the look of the yellow blobs more than round faces. The round ones look dated and remind me of AIM from 15 years ago.

Tyler Durden

I got a middle finger from a few friends yesterday when they got the update lol (?? )

It depends on your phone. I love LG’s, stock Android is okay, but Samsung’s is just plain awful. My biggest complaint though is that we don’t see any of the newer emojis that have been added to the unicode standard. Apple added hundreds of emojis a year or so ago, and again this week with iOS 9.1. All us Android users only see boxes now.

Albert Kilger

Yeah, I don’t really use them much, but it would be nice to at least not see the boxes anymore.

WK

i’ve sideloaded an emoji app on a few phones just to load the default android icons back.

The looks are subjective, but yeah It would be nice to have all the new emoji that are constantly added to the unicode standard. The way swiftkey works though is that it just scrapes from whatever emoji are available on the users phone, it doesn’t supply it’s own like some apps/keyboards. So it would really be up to the OEM’s to deliver us the new emoji, and we all know how that usually goes…